Clothes-line attachment



(No Model.)

L. ,OPPBNHEIMER. CLOTHES LINE ATTACHMENT.

No. 507,835. Patented Oct. 31,1893.

JIVITI%EES: I I C /NVENT0/?" ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- LEO OPPENHEIMER, OF COLLEGE POINT, NEWYORK.

CLOTH ES-LINE ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 507,835, dated October31 1893.

Application filed December 27. 1892. Serial No. 456,502. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LE0 OPPENHEIMEE, of College Point, in the county ofQueens and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedClothes-Line Attachment, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved clothesline attachment, which is simple and durable in construction, readilyapplied and more especially designed for preventing the lower strandcarrying the clothes, from sagging.

The invention consists of certain parts and details, and combinations ofthe same, as will be hereinafter described and then pointed out in theclaim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improvement as applied. Fig. 2 isan enlarged transverse section of the same on the line 22 of Fig. 3; andFig. 3 is aside elevation of the same with parts broken out.

The improved clothes line attachment is provided with a clamp A,preferably made of spring metal in the form of a V, and arranged withsets of clamping jaws A, A near the lower end of the clamp, the saidsets of clamping jaws being for different sized lower strands B of theclothes line B. As shown in Fig. 2, the sets of jaws A, A are formeddirectly in the members of the clamp by curving the members accordingly,half on each side, as plainly shown in Fig. 2.

On the upper end of one of the members of the clamp A is formed aninverted U-shaped extension A in which is journaled a roller 0 adaptedto travel on the upper strand B of the clothes line B, as plainly shownin the drawings. The outer end of the front member of the clampA restson the free end of the U-shaped extension A as plainly indicated in Fig.2, so that the device can be opened for engaging the strands B and B ofthe clothes line, as above described.

It will be seen that the V-shaped clamp A firmly clamps by one of itssets of jaws A or A the lower strand B of the clothes line, while theunder side of the pulley O rests on the top of the upper strand B andfreely travels on the same, when the line is pulled in moving out theclothes or drawing the lower strand in, in the usual manner.

The distance between the under side of the pulley O and the sets ofclamping jaws A and A is approximately equal to the diameters of thepulleys in the sheaves over which the line travels, so that the twostrands B and B are held approximately parallel at all times, andconsequently sagging of the lower strand is prevented when the clothesare attached thereon. If any sagging takes place, the upper strand 13 1saffected in the same manner as the lower one, as both are connected witheach other by the clamp.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and'desire to secureby Letters Patent- I A clothes line attachment comprising a clamp Aformed of a metallic strip bent in the form of a snap hook with theupper end of its spring member or tongue overlapping the lower end ofits hooked portion A a pulley or roller O journaled in the said upper orhooked end of the clamp; thelowerehd of the clamp being provided withthe two jaws A A substantially as described.

' LEO OPPENHEIMER. lVitnesses:

THEo. G. HosTER,

EDGAR TATE.

